Civil War - 1864

Key facts about the Battle of Little Blue River Fought on October 21, 1864.

Fought on October 21, 1864, the Battle of Little Blue River was the third major engagement during Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864.

Key facts about the Lynchburg Campaign of 1864.

The Lynchburg Campaign was the first of three campaigns that comprise the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864.

Key facts about the Battle of Marks' Mill (aka Action at Marks' Mills).

At the Battle of Marks' Mill (aka Action at Marks’ Mills), Confederate soldiers captured "a large number" of blacks and pro-Union Arkansans who they subsequently "inhumanly butchered."

Key facts about the Meridian Campaign of 1864.

Union General William T. Sherman's Meridian Campaign served as a modest rehearsal for his later "March to the Sea" in Georgia, and the Carolinas Campaign, by spreading a path of destruction across central Mississippi in early 1864.

Key facts about the Battle of Mine Creek, the largest Civil War conflict fought in Kansas, and one of the larger cavalry engagements of the war.

The Battle of Mine Creek was the largest Civil War conflict fought in Kansas, and one of the larger cavalry engagements of the war.

Key facts about the Second Battle of Newtonia, which was fought on October 28, 1864, during the Civil War.

Fought on October 28, 1864, the Second Battle of Newtonia was the eighth and final major engagement during Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864.

Key facts about the American Civil War Overland Campaign.

The Overland Campaign, also known as the Wilderness Campaign, was a Union offensive launched in May 1864, intended to defeat Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and bring an end to the American Civil War. The campaign, designed by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, was the bloodiest of the war. Despite losing several battles and suffering higher casualties, the campaign was a strategic Union victory. Grant successfully reduced the insurrection to a war of attrition, which the South was unable to win.

Key facts about the Battle of Poison Spring.

Following the Battle of Poison Spring, Confederate soldiers shot, bayoneted, and scalped the defenseless wounded and captive black soldiers of the 1st Kansas (Colored) Infantry Regiment.

Key facts about the Battle of Prairie D'Ane, (aka Skirmish at Prairie D'Ane, Battle of Gum Springs, or Battle of Moscow),

Also known as the Skirmish at Prairie D’Ane, Battle of Gum Springs, or Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Prairie D'Ane was the second major engagement of the Camden Expedition in 1864.

Key facts about Confederate Major General Sterling Price's Expedition into Missouri in 1864.

In August 1864, Major General Sterling Price led the Confederate Army of Missouri on an unsuccessful raid into Missouri and Kansas with aims of bolstering Confederate influence in the West, diverting Union troops away from the Eastern Theater, and damaging U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s reelection ambitions.